R: R: How to move a DB from one server to another...

"Federico Simonetti (Etheye)" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:53:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Harald,
 
uhm, you may have lost my first message... I said that I am unable to run
pg_restore on a different computer other than the one pg_dump was used on. I
always get a return code of 1 (error). I can easily and quickly dump a
database with pg_dump but I can't restore it on a PC different from the one
used to back it up. And I really can't understand why, I have tried all
possible options...
 
I'm running PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on Win32. I've found some solutions for Linux
but nobody was able to help me regarding the Windows platform. 
 
Thanks,
 
Federico
 


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Da: Harald Armin Massa [mailto:[email protected]] 
Inviato: giovedì 23 giugno 2005 12.14
A: Federico Simonetti (Etheye)
Cc: [email protected]
Oggetto: Re: R: [pgsql-hackers-win32] How to move a DB from one server to
another...


Federico, 


Of course we could use SQL (CREATE DATABASE, CREATE TABLE, INSERT INTO....)
but this would take years on large databases, while a rough "copy this 
folder to the new server" would take just a few seconds.



I do copys of databases every other day. pg_dump and pg_restore work like a
breeze on databases with around 1 gig of stuff, and I do not even use the
binary format and use intermediate files.

Where ist the performance bottleneck you are speaking of? 

Harald

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